Wilmington Roof Pros provides professional skylights & roof windows in Wilmington, DE for residential and commercial properties across New Castle County. A leaking skylight is usually not a broken skylight. It is a flashing kit nobody bought, or a unit dropped into an old roof and bedded in sealant instead of stepped into the courses. The fix is the same either way: pull it and redo it properly.
Timing matters here a great deal more than the product does. The right moment to replace a skylight is during a reroof, while the surrounding field is already open and a manufacturer's flashing kit costs a fraction of what the identical work costs later on. Doing it as a separate project means cutting into a finished roof twice and paying for the privilege on both occasions.
Condensation is the other complaint we get constantly in this climate, and it is usually not a leak in any sense. Damp indoor air reaches cold glass, water beads along the frame, and it drips onto the floor exactly like a leak would. That is an insulation and air-sealing problem inside the shaft, and no amount of resealing the outside will ever touch it.
So we insulate and air-seal the shaft any time we have it open, whether or not that is what you called about. Rigid board tight against the framing, sealed at every edge, with a continuous air barrier carried through at the ceiling plane. On an older Wilmington house with a bare, uninsulated shaft, fixing that alone is frequently the entire job, and the skylight itself never needed replacing at all.
The products we use, and where: curb-mounted units on low-slope sections where a curb can be built up above the water line, deck-mounted units on shingled slopes with the manufacturer's own step and head flashing kit, and rigid sun tunnels for interior bathrooms and stair halls where a full skylight is not worth the framing work it demands. The tunnel is usually the better buy in a hallway.
One honest recommendation that runs directly against the upsell, and we make it often. If you want more light and the room already has a decent window wall, a skylight is a hole in your roof that somebody has to maintain for the next thirty years. Sometimes the right answer is simply not to cut it at all, and we will tell you that before we ever write the quote.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — capped-nail synthetic underlayment over plank decking, sixteen-ounce copper valley pans reset on slate hooks, closed-cut valleys laid over W-profile valley metal, kickout diverters at the roof-to-wall gutter return, framed crickets behind masonry chimneys wider than thirty inches, lead vent boots in place of dried-out rubber collars — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Wilmington and nearby communities including Newark, Middletown, Bear, Glasgow.
What We Handle
Everything our skylights & roof windows in Wilmington covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of skylights & roof windows work in Wilmington, DE. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- skylight installation wilmington de
- skylight replacement new castle county
- leaking skylight repair delaware
- curb mounted skylight
- deck mounted skylight flashing
- sun tunnel installation wilmington
- skylight shaft drywall
- skylight condensation
- velux skylight installer delaware
- skylight replacement with reroof
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Wilmington services.
Materials, equipment and how we do skylights & roof windows
The difference between skylights & roof windows that lasts and skylights & roof windows that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with capped-nail synthetic underlayment over plank decking, sixteen-ounce copper valley pans reset on slate hooks, closed-cut valleys laid over W-profile valley metal, kickout diverters at the roof-to-wall gutter return, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Wilmington job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in New Castle County means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do skylights & roof windows outside Wilmington
Wilmington Roof Pros covers Wilmington and the surrounding communities of New Castle County. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Skylights & Roof Windows in Newark, DE — New Castle County, population 30,601
- Skylights & Roof Windows in Middletown, DE — New Castle County, population 23,192
- Skylights & Roof Windows in Bear, DE — New Castle County, population 23,060
- Skylights & Roof Windows in Glasgow, DE — New Castle County, population 15,288
- Skylights & Roof Windows in Brookside, DE — New Castle County, population 14,974
- Skylights & Roof Windows in Hockessin, DE — New Castle County, population 13,478
Start on the Wilmington Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Wilmington Chooses Wilmington Roof Pros
- ✓Every proposal carries our Delaware business license number and our Department of Labor contractor registration number, plus the two free state searches that verify them.
- ✓We are a resident contractor under Delaware law, meaning we keep a place of business in this state, so the nonresident surety bond never applies to us. We will tell you plainly when it applies to somebody else's bid.
- ✓We tell you when another bid on your table is from a Pennsylvania, Maryland or New Jersey company. That changes what has to be on file before work starts, not what the roof is worth.
- ✓Tarping is billed and closed as its own job with its own invoice. It is never the deposit on a replacement you have not agreed to.
The standards behind skylights & roof windows
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The skylights & roof windows work we do in Wilmington follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every skylights & roof windows project in Wilmington gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free skylights & roof windows free estimate in Wilmington, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.